National Women’s Hall of Fame

1 Canal Street, Seneca Falls

Tuesday – Saturday

11am – 4pm

(Closed Sunday and Monday)

 

Note: The Hall will be closed for an event on 9/27/25

 

Groups welcome!

Martha Wright Griffiths
Born 1912
Achievements: Government
1993 Inductee
Billie Jean King
Born 1943
Achievements: Athletics
1990 Inductee
Jeannette Rankin
Born 1880
Achievements: Government
1993 Inductee
Nannerl O. Keohane
Born 1940
Achievements: Education
1995 Inductee
Kate Stoneman
Born 1841
Achievements: Government
2009 Inductee
Ernestine Louise Potowski Rose
Born 1810
Achievements: Humanities
1996 Inductee
Frances Oldham Kelsey
Born 1914
Achievements: Science
2000 Inductee
Eleanor Smeal
Born 1939
Achievements: Humanities
2015 Inductee
Anna Howard Shaw
Born 1847
Achievements: Humanities
2000 Inductee
Julia Child
Born 1912
Achievements: Arts
2007 Inductee
Betty Friedan
Born 1921
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Martha Graham
Born 1894
Achievements: Arts
2015 Inductee
Mary Breckinridge
Born 1881
Achievements: Science
1995 Inductee
Gertrude "Trudy" Ederle
Born 1905
Achievements: Athletics
2003 Inductee
Florence Sabin
Born 1871
Achievements: Science
1973 Inductee
Faye Wattleton
Born 1943
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Katharine Dexter McCormick
Born 1875
Achievements: Humanities, Philanthropy
1998 Inductee
Beverly Sills
Born 1929
Achievements: Arts
1998 Inductee
Dorothy Height
Born 1912
Achievements: Education, Humanities
1993 Inductee
Abigail Adams
Born 1744
Achievements: Humanities
1976 Inductee
Constance Baker Motley
Born 1921
Achievements: Government
1993 Inductee
Gwendolyn Brooks
Born 1917
Achievements: Arts
1988 Inductee
Louise Bourgeois
Born 1911
Achievements: Arts
2009 Inductee
Anne Hutchinson
Born 1591
Achievements: Humanities
1994 Inductee
Harriet Williams Russell Strong
Born 1844
Achievements: Business
2001 Inductee

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Conversation with Great Women – Sacramento

Conversation with Great Women – Sacramento

The Hall, in association with the McGeorge School of Law at the University of the Pacific, was delighted to host a Conversation with Great Women in Sacramento, California. The Conversation featured...

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News & Events

2017 Induction Weekend

Save the Date! The 2017 National Women's Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony will take place September 15, 16 & 17, 2017 in Seneca Falls, NY. More details to come.

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Inductee, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Published in New York Times

In the spirit of the Hall’s Oral History Project is an essay adapted from Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s (inducted 2002) forthcoming memoir “My own words.” Her essay offers good reminder of how telling women’s history is American history and how histories, as we honor...

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